Curing Obesity through Sterility

[Almeria]

Curing Obesity through Sterility: California 's Controversial Program Under the Microscope

Beginning last November, the city of San Francisco began a program whereupon clinically obese men between the ages of 18 and 55 could undergo a procedure whereupon approximately 1/2 an inch is removed from each vas and the ends are sealed - commonly referred to as a vasectomy - completely free of charge. The overwhelming turnout led the State of California to follow suit, and now California is the first state in the Union to offer state-funded vasectomies to men who have been diagnosed as obese.

Why would a state adopt such a controversial program? The basis is simple: vasectomy is a popular method of birth control (in 1983, figures showed that approximately 10 million men had been sterilized in the U.S. since 1969). By offering such a highly effective form of birth control freely to men who, by clinical diagnosis, have been deemed genetically inferior to the normalized median of homo sapien development, such a gene line would effectively be eliminated.

The program’s roots began in countries such as India and China , where the respective governments of those countries are attempting to stem the tide of overpopulation. Sums of money are paid to men who submit to voluntary vasectomy. The program is highly effective, given that the incentives for action are both a limit to overcrowding (societal concern) and monetary gain (personal concern). Given the effectiveness, The San Francisco Medical Society took note and took action.

Nationally recognized geneticist William A. Doty and clinician Joseph Peacock began a program in private practice whereupon overweight men in the Bay Area could receive vasectomies free of charge. Their philosophy: When engaging in clinical decision making, physicians tend to value primarily information about the effect of treatments on physiological functioning and disease progression, rather than information about the impact on the patient’s quality of life [9-11]. By focusing on the quality of life of future generations, we greatly improve the psychological impact of genetics on the human condition. The response was positive, and they published the results of the clinical trials in the San Francisco Medical Society’s Journal. Soon, other private care physicians spoke in favor of Doty’s controversial new theory on the cure for obesity, which led to the program’s establishment as a city-funded project and eventually lead to the State of California 's Committee for Exploratory Medicine to set aside funds to trial the project on a State level.
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pnmj.org/0032205_curing_obesity.asp

So the cure for obesity is eugenics?

 

[StJeanneDArc]

Wow–I suppose next they’ll establish beauty commissions and offer sterilization to those that don’t make the grade. Or they could offer it to homosexuals for those rare occassions when they get a hankering for the opposite sex. Wait…I forgot, this is San Francisco, where homosexuality is desirable.

 

[jdnation]

Contraception and euthanasia seem to be the answer to everything these days…

Hey, it’s nothing new either, simply a different motive!

ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/racial/right.htm

 

[bjorn]

this seems very sexist to me i dont understand why they wouldnt make this “vasectomy” procedure available to obese women also. why should men be the only people this is offered to free of charge.